G-DYPEELZW7C 1572007609577068 On Grief and Bliss with Kelly Watkins (Ep. 2 in the Soul-Care Series) - A Lone Traveler's Guide to the Divine

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21st Mar 2023

On Grief and Bliss with Kelly Watkins (Ep. 2 in the Soul-Care Series)

In this episode 

Join me for the second episode in the Soul-Care Series where I chat with my dear friend Kelly Watkins about Grief. Kelly is a Board Certified Polarity Practitioner, a fellow polarity teacher (who happened to help me start the Hive!) and a grief expert who offers online sessions and mourning circles for anyone who has experience loss, trauma, or has endured the trials of being human. In this down-to-earth and intimate conversation Kelly shares about some of her own losses including her current walk with cancer, and offers some helpful ways to process and honor grief.

In this episode of the Soul-Care Series you will hear:

  • About the ether element (throat chakra) and its relationship to grief and bliss
  • About the importance of honoring grief and the whole continuum of our experience
  • How grieving is both personal and universal
  • Kellys amazing "wailing tub" exercise for allowing grief to leave your body and go down the drain
  • A poem from my book which you can learn more about or purchase on Amazon here:   The Soul-Care Workbook: A 33 Day Journey Through your Chakras and Elements  


Summary 

Welcome dreamers, seekers, empaths, and healers! My name is Amanda Lux of the Elevation Hive school and community membership for energy medicine and dreamwork. In this podcast, I share teachings, musings, poems, songs, and interviews with other amazing humans who walk the healer's path. 


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Transcript
Kelly Watkins:

I feel like intimacy with yourself has to involve

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catastrophic grief, you know, that knock you to your knees.

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I can't catch my breath.

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Grief, and that you find pieces of yourself and definitely some

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compassion that is inaccessible.

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Otherwise, if we don't fall down and grind your face into the asphalt a little...

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Welcome to a Lone Traveler's Guide to the Divine, a podcast for

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dreamers, seekers, healers, and anyone on their healer's journey.

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My name is Amanda Lux and I'm the creator of The Elevation Hive School and Community

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for Energy Medicine and Dreamwork.

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And this is the second episode in a series on soul care, which is a term

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that I've created and I write about in my book, the Soul Care Workbook, which

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offers a multidimensional view of tending to the deeper self or tending to our

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whole self beyond the physical body or even our emotions or mental states.

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Which is implied in self-care, but soul care really goes beyond that.

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Incorporating tools and exercises based in polarity therapy that help

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us to tend to our energy body as well.

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In this series of episodes, I am sharing some poems from the book.

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Uh, I write a poem for each of the elements, and I will be

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opening and closing each episode in this series with those poems.

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And in each episode I will be focusing on soul tending by exploring sort of the,

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what we call in polarity, the negative and positive polls of each element.

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And today's element is the ether element , and we're focusing on

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the, , continuum of grief and bliss.

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Those are the positive and negative pull experiences that reside in

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our ether or our throat chakra.

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So I invited a really dear friend of mine, kelly Watkins to share some

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of her wisdom around this topic.

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From a polarity perspective, she is an incredibly wise learned person and

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she is going through her own cancer journey, and has probably endured more

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loss than anybody I've ever met in my entire life, with so much grace.

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She spent most of her life supporting other people through their grief.

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I would definitely consider her a grief expert.

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She was a hospice nurse for nine years and labored and delivery

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nurse for the same amount of time.

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She works now doing polarity therapy with and leading mourning circles

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where you mourn, uh, and grieve together, which is just a beautiful

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thing, , for people who have experienced all kinds of trauma and loss.

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And, you know, just anyone who's been human and had challenges

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you're all welcome to attend.

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So I'm excited to share that conversation where Kelly and I discuss grief in some

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of her, her wisdom and , some helpful tools and suggestions that she offers.

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But before I get into the interview, I wanted to just give a little bit of

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context around this energetic continuum of the ether that I was sharing, and kind

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of offer a little attunement to the e.

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and a little story.

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So it's gonna be a juicy episode full of resources

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. And if you're listening to this and

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something, this is definitely going to offer some medicinal bits for you.

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And if you're, you're not there currently, and you're wondering, well,

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why would I want to, uh, dip into grief?

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How would that even serve me to consider

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I mean, don't we usually wanna keep grief away, , if we're not in it

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actively, why would we want to go there?

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Is really what I wanted to say.

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And I wanna just offer this idea that we all experience grief and

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at different times, and especially in our culture, there's not a lot

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of resource and or encouragement.

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To really fully experience our own grieving, it's often encouraged

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that we hide it or move through it as quickly as possible, and there's

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a lot of judgment and shame around feeling those difficult emotions.

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And I wanted to share this great quote by Francis Weller who wrote the

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book, the Wild Edge of Sorrow, rituals of Renewal, and the Sacred Work of.

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He says, I am not suggesting that we live a life preoccupied with sorrow.

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I am saying that our refusal to welcome the sorrows that come to us, our inability

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to move through these experiences with true presence and conscious awareness,

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condemns us to a life shadowed by grief.

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welcoming.

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Everything that comes to us is the challenge.

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This is the secret to being fully alive.

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So just honoring that we are all going to experience grief at

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different times, and this is because our energy is meant to pulse.

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It contracts and expands.

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and we're not meant to stay open.

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We're meant to close at times, and the amount of grace that we can bring to

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this process of dipping in and out of our positive and negative experiences.

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Is really what we want to learn how to cultivate is that ability to move between

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them, to hold them even simultaneously, to actually embrace and go into our grieving

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while maintaining that deeper knowing of our oneness and our interconnection

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to feel in the depths of our soul, the, the separation and the struggle.

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and the sorrows.

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While experiencing and staying in touch with the depth of our joy and

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our connection and our belongingness.

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This is how we can increase our vitality.

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This is how we can fully experience what we're here to experience in the full.

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. So just to consider this, that

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in that pulsation, that we're not here to avoid one end or the other.

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and to get out of grief as quickly as possible isn't really the point.

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It's to experience it as thoroughly and with as much resource as possible

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to modulate that in the ways that we need to while also moving through

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what we need in order to really.

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and there's a really beautiful story that illustrates this that I wanted

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to share and I found, I came across this story in one of the old handouts

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I had for the Polarity energetic communications class, which I'm actually

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about to teach in a couple of days

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here in Olympia, Washington.

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And this story is called the, but.

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There is a person who finds a cocoon of a butterfly and one

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day a small opening appears.

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They sit and watch the butterfly for several hours as it struggles to force

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its body through the little hole until it seems to stop making any progress.

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It appears as though it could go no further.

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This person decides to help the butterfly, so they take a pair of scissors and snip

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off the remaining bit of the cocoon.

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The butterfly then emerges easily, but it has a swollen

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body and small shriveled wings.

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The person continues to watch the butterfly because they expect that

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at any moment the wings will enlarge and expand and be able to support

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the body, which would contract in time, but neither happens.

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In fact, the butterfly spends the rest of his life crawling around with

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a swollen body and shrivelled wings.

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It is never able to fly.

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What this person in their kindness and haste does not understand is that

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restricting the cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get

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through the tiny opening is the way that the fluids get forced from the

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body of the butterfly into its wings so that it can be ready for flight.

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Once it has achieved its freedom from the co.

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Sometimes our struggles are exactly what we need in our life, and if

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we go through our life without any obstacles, it would cripple us.

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We would not be as strong as we could have been, and we could never fly.

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So just tuning into now this story and

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recognizing that

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we can trust our own process, even the uncomfortable,

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, terrible, struggling parts.

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and we can be patient with ourselves in those moments.

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Remembering that those two are necessary experiences in order

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for us to learn how to fly.

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And I wanna just invite you now to just tune into your own ether as you

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consider this to your own throat center.

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Maybe taking a breath and allowing the words that I'm speaking to just wash

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over you for a moment as we invoke the ether element, tuning into that continuum

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of grief and bliss that resides there.

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Bringing your awareness into your body and the sensations and to the subtle.

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That resides within and around your physical body and in this location,

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in the Throat Center, we have the seat of our truth and our ability

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to be expressed authentically.

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And here we can open up, we can be heard, we can be seen and witnessed,

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and we can deeply listen to others without, with our whole being.

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and we cannot even listen to spirit, to our own guidance, our inner

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guidance, our higher guidance as well.

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From this place, we can engage in the conversation that Spirit is having with us

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and, and our throat center.

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When our energy is flowing, we can experience incredible connect.

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A blissful sense of oneness as we merge with the vast

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universal awareness that is us.

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And then there will be moments when our energy will contract, when we

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will move into a cycle of smallness and we may feel alone or far away.

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Or helpless.

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Or constricted.

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And that's okay.

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And we're just gonna say hello to the grief and to the old

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grief that might be there.

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And we're going to acknowledge that we're here to experience

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the full range of our humanness,

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that we're here to be both vast and separate.

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and that the gift is that when we can hold both of these poles and

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slide between them with fluidity and grace, then we can drop, then we can

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experience ourselves as that single drop in the ocean separate from the rest

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while simultaneously know.

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and feeling and experiencing ourselves as the entire ocean itself.

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We are both.

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And I'm gonna open this episode with this poem from the Soul Care

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workbook on Ether Space Sound.

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Form grief, the unborn star filled knights and open vistas,

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imperfections and reflections.

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Choking notions.

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Om filled oceans of renewal space.

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Oneness and separation.

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The hollows, the bellows, the hallowed places.

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Whole spacious, graciously returning to center to now flying through Infinity

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Sparkling with pur.

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Vibing with the frequency of luminosity, invoking, yaking, all things no things.

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The creative spark, stark and empty, full of neutrality,

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unlimited possibilities space.

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As I move into this conversation with Kelly Watkins, I invite you to listen.

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Enjoy yourself.

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This is a fun conversation.

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She's a very fun person.

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As we explore and splash around in the topic of grief.

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You

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have Kelly, an incredible perspective that's

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really rare and sacred and special.

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And so, because you know, a lot of us have our own grief and some

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of us get extra loads of that.

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and then there's those of us who show up and hold space for other people's

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grieving in all kinds of ways.

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And you are one of those people that have been specifically on the planet holding

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space for all kinds of grieving, for, for decades, maybe your entire life.

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Have you, when you were little, were you doing this?

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I think you were.

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I was.

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And thank you.

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Oh my gosh.

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Uh, yeah, I think I was about four years old doing an animal cemetery.

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My friend Carol and I like, uh, walking up and down the alleys

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and to find a dead animal.

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Cause we wanted to bury it.

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We wanted to say a prayer, we wanted to make a cross and we wanted to have some

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kind of special thing cuz oh my gosh, poor thing died and he's gonna do this.

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I don't know what the feeling was, but it was something, you know, it felt like

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some important job that we needed to.

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Yeah.

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Until my mom found out and she was, you know, a little grossed out and

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she was a little grossed out by it.

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Yeah.

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. Amanda Lux: I think that's really cool.

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But I love that, that you did that and that that's sort of been

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a theme throughout your life.

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And I know that you spent a long time working in this field of death and

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I know that you've spent a long time also working in the field of, of birth.

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, do you wanna say anything about your life experience in relationship to grief or

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how that's taken you to where you are now?

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Yeah, so I think that having a mom that died when I was

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young certainly ignited something.

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I was about 22 when she died, and you know, little babies and you just kind

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of want that older layer ahead of you.

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And if it's not there, then.

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A little, you know, I don't wanna say broken, but it

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definitely shapes who you become.

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And in some ways I think the death work that I've done is still

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tending to that pain that I have.

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You know, of course.

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But also I'm fascinated by how little attention we put towards

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something that is basically the one of the largest moments of our life.

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Like we have to literally muster up the courage to.

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Goodbye to everything.

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We love every person.

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We love every feeling.

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We love every emotion, every experience, every food, every orgasm, every whatever.

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It all goes away and nobody wants to talk about it.

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for good reason,

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but I don't know.

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I'm a sucker for the underdog and I'm bummed that nobody wants

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to walk arm and arm with death.

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It's just the.

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This is the story of your life.

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How are you gonna fit everything in, in this little thing?

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And if you don't, what happens?

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And if you do, what happens?

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And how do you walk with other people that are saying goodbye

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to literally all the things that they have loved in their lifetime?

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So I guess mostly I just wish that maybe now my biggest platform is

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that I want people to feel really.

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, like they're good stewards to humans and that they, they wanna help people through

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the really difficult things that maybe nobody has been able to help them through.

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And just how to be a good community member through caring for one

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another with death and birth.

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You know, that whole gig.

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Yeah.

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So I was a nurse, like my mom died when I was 22.

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I started nursing school the day after her funeral per her.

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Per her orders and then did labor and delivery for a good eight years and

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then did hospice for another eight years and it had, you know, that weird

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experience of seeing those as both in the same job, you know, the same

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experience, the same veil for sure.

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Somebody's coming in, somebody's going out.

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They both have about as much information.

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, you know, . Yeah, it's kind of cool.

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It's really like a beautiful thing and um, I just tr love trying to find as many

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ways as I can to wiggle that into whatever it is I'm doing in the world at the time.

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Yeah.

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Well, and I know that you've been also leading some mourning circles and.

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That's morning.

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Not good Morning.

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Morning.

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Not good morning.

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I did have one person show up for it thinking it was a good morning circle

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and it was a cry morning circle.

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So I might, I might change the name.

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. Amanda Lux: Well, I know that you've been

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I mean, there are.

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Grief circles, but I love, I actually love the idea of mourning as a

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communal practice, as something that we could come together and do to mourn

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together is really a beautiful thing.

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And you're working with all kinds of people with all kinds of grief.

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And you do that in private practice and you do that in groups and.

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. I know that you know some things about that.

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In addition to walking with your own grief, I know like you've been

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dealing with cancer, you have had multiple mothers die recently.

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You were mentioning that when we first got on here, . That sounds weird.

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Multiple mothers.

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I had a remarkable set of mothers.

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There's no denying it, and so their absence is definitely felt right now.

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propelling me more into this subject and more into honoring like our ancestors

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before they become dead ancestors.

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Like we wanna really capture these humans that shape us and soak,

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soak them in before they're gone.

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Yeah, our culture's a little funny about that, but yes, I have definitely,

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uh, . I had one of my, my ex-mother-in-law was 97.

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My other mother-in-law was 87.

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And um, I think my stepmom was up in her late seventies, but such a contrast

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from my mom, mom who died at 55.

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Yeah.

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and now I'm kind of doing this, I, I don't feel like I'm dying right this

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minute, but I have been diagnosed with a blood cancer that they

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consider incurable three years ago.

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And let me just say, I thought, wow man, this fits, I'm gonna really, really know

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how to handle myself being diagnosed with cancer cuz I'm really knowledgeable.

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, you know where that's going.

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Yeah.

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I just.

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, I'm not good at it.

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It's not the same thing.

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to walk in your own finiteness.

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There, there's something in there of course, but it's a whole different

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experience to have courage or to be clear and communicate and know what

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you need and, and to do it, you know, alone is, uh, I mean like without

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a partner, it's just really a trip.

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But as we know, there's no accident.

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So I'm walking this thing, really trying to hear.

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You know, the information and then transmute it or, or recreate

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it or do it in a new recipe so that it's helpful before I crop.

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You know, I'm gonna have some really helpful wisdom that can bubble up to

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the surfaces for everyone, for my kids,

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especially.

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Getting to hear you talk about your life and your walk and your path and

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where you are now is so humbling to me.

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I just feel in awe of all that you have done and are you have a breadth

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of experience and knowledge when it comes to this topic, specifically

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of grief and a way acknowledging and holding space for the importance of

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grieving and acknowledging our grief.

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And I just.

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I just wanted to give you an opportunity to speak to that because there's people

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who are listening who have grief.

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We all have grief.

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You know, it actually makes me wanna kind of choke up just thinking about , how much

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grief we all have in all the different ways that we carry it, you know, that

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we accumulate it just from being born.

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It's difficult being.

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and there's all kinds of difficulties that come up along the way, and we're

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not, we're not taught how to deal with it.

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We're not really given those tools.

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And maybe at some point in history they were preserved and

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passed down from our elders.

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But like you were saying, in our current culture, our elders are not

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valued in the way that they could.

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and their wisdom and all that they have walked through and accumulated

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and learned is not necessarily sought after in the way that it could be.

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I guess my point is that it, it's, it's difficult to be human.

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We all have grief and we don't really know how to do that.

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You know, I think most people could be better at it.

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I could be better at.

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, and I mean, I, I've thought a lot about it, you know, uh, just in a

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polarity context, of course, how to hold space for the whole spectrum of

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experience that we, we get to have, but specifically that one grief in and of

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itself relating to the ether element, the throat chakra in the polarity model.

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And I'll just say that, that.

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, there's the positive pull and the negative pull emotion associated

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with every element or chakra.

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And for ether, the positive pull would be that sense of total oneness,

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bliss out connectedness with spirit.

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And for the negative pull it would be grease and then, and that's not bad.

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It's just like the, the other end of the pole . Right.

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I would, I would rather say south.

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And North Pole then positive, negative in this context, actually,

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it's true.

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Yeah.

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It's a giant continuum too.

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I think that it's, you aren't in touch with that part of your identity until you

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experience grief and loss and that becomes just like a part of your soul then.

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And I think it changes in, in expression maybe.

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Potency and sometimes still, I mean, my mother's been gone for 33 years.

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Sometimes I'll pop open the fresh sheets from the dryer and just crawl

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to my knees brawling like a baby.

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Cuz I need my mom.

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Yeah.

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And that's really hard for us to accept in our culture where we really want to

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kind of have a remedy for everything.

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We wanna smooth things and.

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Be, um, you know, we, we just want an antidote, . It's such a bummer

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and I'm really enjoying this process.

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Maybe not for the last three years, but certainly in and out of it, of just, uh,

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just devoting my heart to that part as well, like just the real disturbance of.

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I'm just so sad and I'm just so bummed out, and I'm also so, so hopeful and

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happy and like, gosh, wouldn't that be interesting if I just have one of

Kelly Watkins:

those like miraculous healings and I'm totally down for it, but it's hard to

Kelly Watkins:

walk with this new set of circumstances or this new feeling in your body

Kelly Watkins:

or this new absence of brain power.

Kelly Watkins:

you know, whatever the things are that Finiteness bring.

Kelly Watkins:

. Yeah.

Kelly Watkins:

To your experience, it's probably a little bit the same for everyone

Kelly Watkins:

because it's just a, I don't think I've ever tended to a person that was

Kelly Watkins:

dying, that expected on on some level.

Kelly Watkins:

I don't think that we walk around going, I bet it's around the corner.

Kelly Watkins:

You know?

Kelly Watkins:

I think it just shows up and you go, oh shit.

Kelly Watkins:

Whoa.

Kelly Watkins:

I don't know how to walk with the end of me.

Kelly Watkins:

I don't know what that even.

Kelly Watkins:

. Yeah.

Kelly Watkins:

I would say that I've never really seen grief being expressed in the same way.

Kelly Watkins:

Really.

Kelly Watkins:

Really.

Kelly Watkins:

And even when our parents died, each of my five siblings had a completely different

Kelly Watkins:

version of what acclimating to life was.

Kelly Watkins:

Yeah.

Kelly Watkins:

And all of the little things that you get to patch up the holes

Kelly Watkins:

of energy leaking out of your.

Kelly Watkins:

Right.

Kelly Watkins:

Sometimes booze, sometimes a bike.

Kelly Watkins:

You know, different tools and, and when I think of tending energetically

Kelly Watkins:

or being a doula, a life doula to your soul, like what is that?

Kelly Watkins:

And really just is a lot of patience and a lot of listening, which is

Kelly Watkins:

what we have been trained for.

Kelly Watkins:

You and I.

Kelly Watkins:

We're trained to listen and have patience.

Kelly Watkins:

. Yeah.

Amanda Lux:

I love that.

Amanda Lux:

That nobody does it the same way, and that even within our own

Amanda Lux:

experience, it's not linear and it's, it, it, there's no remedy.

Amanda Lux:

It's something that we have to learn how to be with as opposed to get through,

Amanda Lux:

and that it does change and evolve.

Amanda Lux:

and become easier at different times.

Amanda Lux:

Yet there's no way to, to just say, this is what it is, or this is how it will be.

Amanda Lux:

We're always a little blind with it.

Amanda Lux:

We really

Kelly Watkins:

are.

Kelly Watkins:

Yeah.

Kelly Watkins:

And I think, uh, you know, I guess that comes from a lot of

Kelly Watkins:

different things, but what I'm.

Kelly Watkins:

What I have a challenge with is equipping like the idea or the

Kelly Watkins:

notion that you could equip the people that will be grieving for you.

Kelly Watkins:

Like is there something that you can do?

Kelly Watkins:

Is there some part of the puzzle that you can capture and live while you're here

Kelly Watkins:

in your life and in your relationships?

Kelly Watkins:

Is there healing to be done before you're dead?

Kelly Watkins:

That's where I'm at.

Kelly Watkins:

That's where I'm at right now.

Kelly Watkins:

I was like, okay, how do I do.

Kelly Watkins:

in a way that's healthy for everyone.

Kelly Watkins:

Yeah.

Kelly Watkins:

To revisit parenting errors or to revisit life mistakes or whatever.

Kelly Watkins:

What, uh, I mean, I'm.

Kelly Watkins:

We all have tons of it and some people are like, dude, I don't need to go back.

Kelly Watkins:

I'm good with whatever I chose and how I'm living and what I believe and

Kelly Watkins:

who I hurt and whatever, whatever.

Kelly Watkins:

Like that's just what I did and I don't feel like I have a million apologies to

Kelly Watkins:

do, but I'm darn sure curious and hopeful and interested if maybe we could find

Kelly Watkins:

some soft water to kind of float around in and be like, let's talk about some of.

Kelly Watkins:

Like the experiences that you had that created pain in your life.

Kelly Watkins:

Mm-hmm.

Kelly Watkins:

But also so that we can untangle some of our knots so that we can

Kelly Watkins:

untangle some things and have a deeper understanding of what some of those

Kelly Watkins:

memories were, or instances or, you know.

Amanda Lux:

Wow.

Amanda Lux:

That just sounds like such a gift.

Amanda Lux:

And you know, just in that thought of like, we're all

Amanda Lux:

going to die at some point.

Amanda Lux:

wouldn't it be good if we lived like that?

Amanda Lux:

Just making sure that we're untangling all of our knots, clearing up any of

Amanda Lux:

the misconstrued things, places we've unintentionally caused harm to go

Amanda Lux:

back and do those repairs in our life.

Amanda Lux:

I, I feel inspired.

Amanda Lux:

I had this idea on that vein when I reached out to you recently.

Amanda Lux:

I was just sitting in bed the other morning and suddenly it occurred to me,

Amanda Lux:

I was thinking about this topic of grief and grieving and how do we do it well?

Amanda Lux:

How do we do it thoroughly?

Amanda Lux:

How do we do it with the most possible consciousness and attention and to just

Amanda Lux:

really, really be good at grieving?

Amanda Lux:

How do we do that?

Amanda Lux:

What does that take?

Amanda Lux:

And then I started to think about really why.

Amanda Lux:

Why is this something that we don't consider until we have a

Amanda Lux:

death sentence or or until we're in the throes of it ourselves?

Amanda Lux:

Why aren't we doing more preventative grief work?

Amanda Lux:

And especially, why aren't we teaching our children these skills in school

Amanda Lux:

or before they even get to school?

Amanda Lux:

Because children often grieve open.

Amanda Lux:

and thoroughly they're, they're pretty good at it, actually.

Amanda Lux:

Perfect.

Amanda Lux:

When they're little, and it's only over time as we get older that we

Amanda Lux:

start to separate from our truths, our authentic experience and our authentic

Amanda Lux:

ability to process our experiences.

Amanda Lux:

And what if we were to like help them stay with that innate ability to grieve

Amanda Lux:

What would the adult world look like?

Amanda Lux:

if we weren't told to stop crying and do the thing, you

Amanda Lux:

know, get it together or, yeah.

Kelly Watkins:

And think about all of the times that we grieve, that

Kelly Watkins:

doesn't have anything to do with death.

Kelly Watkins:

We're grieving all the time.

Kelly Watkins:

Yeah.

Kelly Watkins:

We don't really know how.

Kelly Watkins:

Yeah.

Kelly Watkins:

I mean, maybe we do.

Kelly Watkins:

Maybe it is.

Kelly Watkins:

Maybe the right way is to lay down and kick your feet and

Kelly Watkins:

vomit when you cried so hard.

Kelly Watkins:

Yeah.

Amanda Lux:

Well certainly that's a right way.

Amanda Lux:

I think that probably the right way would.

Amanda Lux:

, I am guessing that the right way to grieve would be whatever feels the

Amanda Lux:

most right to you in the moment.

Amanda Lux:

. Kelly Watkins: Amen.

Amanda Lux:

Amen.

Amanda Lux:

And it has changed quite a few times.

Amanda Lux:

You know, it just does grief changes and especially when you be access some

Amanda Lux:

new resource that you didn't have, and then you kind of rise up a little and

Amanda Lux:

then something brings you down and you know, you shuffle over to the east or

Amanda Lux:

the west with your grief, . But I do think that it, there is some really

Amanda Lux:

helpful information and that, um, grief doesn't have to be an overwhelming idea.

Amanda Lux:

We're already living with grief anyway.

Amanda Lux:

It's just a, a new way to maybe hold it for yourself and hold it,

Amanda Lux:

brothers.

Amanda Lux:

Yeah.

Amanda Lux:

Well, I mean, one thing that I think about, so in polarity

Amanda Lux:

there is that continu.

Amanda Lux:

of the whole spectrum of experience within each of the elements, and for the ether,

Amanda Lux:

as we mentioned, it's grief or as an experience of blissful interconnectedness

Amanda Lux:

on the other end of that continuum.

Amanda Lux:

But they're related.

Amanda Lux:

And one thing that I really love about the e Easter element in

Amanda Lux:

particular, in the the medicine wheel, we have the four directions.

Amanda Lux:

Ether is sort of the whole wheel itself.

Amanda Lux:

It contains everything.

Amanda Lux:

And there's this sense of that when you go into ether, you're touching all the

Amanda Lux:

things and you're holding all the things.

Amanda Lux:

And so when I think about grief in particular as an experience, or

Amanda Lux:

even bliss as an experience in total interconnected, There is on that

Amanda Lux:

continuum, this feeling of being in touch with all the things at once.

Kelly Watkins:

It's so funny.

Kelly Watkins:

You can think I'm a big dork, but I ha I make appointments for my grief now.

Kelly Watkins:

I really do because I, you know, I'm kind of a pretty dramatic human being and I

Kelly Watkins:

really like to cause a big some chaos.

Kelly Watkins:

I just do.

Kelly Watkins:

I like to feel it so loud and big, and.

Kelly Watkins:

, but I just make appointments for a long time.

Kelly Watkins:

It's been Thursday at six and then at six o'clock I say okay,

Kelly Watkins:

and I, I mean probably before six I'll start getting my situation.

Kelly Watkins:

It's bath usually and I call it a wailing bath . And I put baking soda and I put

Kelly Watkins:

salt and I put EPS and salts and I'll output sometimes some essential oils.

Kelly Watkins:

Bergamont is really good, I think, for like just allowing stuff to, for me.

Kelly Watkins:

and sometimes my tuning forks, and sometimes I'll just put on some great

Kelly Watkins:

music and sometimes absolutely nothing.

Kelly Watkins:

But I just know that that particular time is for me to really be genuine

Kelly Watkins:

with what my heart feels like and not to feel embarrassed about letting it

Kelly Watkins:

rip and just like really going into it.

Kelly Watkins:

And sometimes it's that chaotic.

Kelly Watkins:

A lot of structure to it, but sometimes I really wanna get better and I

Kelly Watkins:

wanna like take what I'm hearing and feeling and transform it into

Kelly Watkins:

something that could be useful.

Kelly Watkins:

So getting in the tub while it's empty, and then putting a plug in and filling

Kelly Watkins:

it and then doing your wailing back.

Kelly Watkins:

And then when you, uh, pull the plug, you stay in the tub and you

Kelly Watkins:

keep wailing if you have it in you.

Kelly Watkins:

Yeah.

Kelly Watkins:

So the idea is that it.

Kelly Watkins:

Going out of the tub, going out of your body, and it has been unbelievably

Kelly Watkins:

helpful to just, um, maybe it's just saying it's important enough to me

Kelly Watkins:

that I'm going to show up for it every single week no matter what.

Kelly Watkins:

Even if it's ridiculous.

Kelly Watkins:

, even if that's not what other people do, I just get in the bathroom, cry my

Kelly Watkins:

head off, and it's helping me . Yeah.

Amanda Lux:

Well, and I know that you mentioned you've been

Amanda Lux:

doing this with others too.

Amanda Lux:

You have shared this tool with other,

Kelly Watkins:

that you work with?

Kelly Watkins:

I do.

Kelly Watkins:

I work, I work for a nonprofit in Arizona, but that does a 16 week program

Kelly Watkins:

with all kinds of different traumas.

Kelly Watkins:

uh, we some really gnarly stuff.

Kelly Watkins:

So a lot of grimy, deep grief.

Kelly Watkins:

And

Amanda Lux:

many humans,

Kelly Watkins:

you know, especially in the United States, are not,

Kelly Watkins:

like we've been saying, we just don't, we don't validate grief.

Kelly Watkins:

We think that means we're wimpy or we think that we should have our

Kelly Watkins:

crap together in order to not feel that, or that there's something

Kelly Watkins:

that other people have that we don't, that helps us be stronger.

Kelly Watkins:

I don't know.

Kelly Watkins:

What all of that is.

Kelly Watkins:

It's probably a million different things, but I think just saying, I have your back.

Kelly Watkins:

I know you're hurting.

Kelly Watkins:

I'm gonna be here with you while you cry it out.

Kelly Watkins:

I don't have any answers, but I definitely care about us enough to hold, hold this.

Kelly Watkins:

Yeah.

Amanda Lux:

That's beautiful.

Amanda Lux:

Thank you for sharing that tool.

Amanda Lux:

I think that could be really useful for some people.

Amanda Lux:

, Kelly Watkins: what do

Amanda Lux:

I know you paint

Amanda Lux:

your grief.

Amanda Lux:

I definitely think that art is a huge outlet for me, for all the

Amanda Lux:

range of emotions and you know, specifically when I think about grief.

Amanda Lux:

Absolutely.

Amanda Lux:

Like creating, crying, singing, you know?

Kelly Watkins:

Yeah.

Amanda Lux:

singing is, is a helpful tool for me.

Amanda Lux:

But you know, I'm not in a place in the moment in my life where I'm

Amanda Lux:

doing a lot of active grieving.

Amanda Lux:

I have been there, I visit grief and I definitely hold

Amanda Lux:

space for it with other people.

Amanda Lux:

It's not something I'm, I'm daily tending in the moment, but that's

Amanda Lux:

just where I'm at in the moment.

Amanda Lux:

I certainly have, and I, when I have been in acute states of, of grieving.

Amanda Lux:

, I can recall that there were so many emotions there that, that

Amanda Lux:

remind me of that hoop of the medicine wheel, of the, the way

Amanda Lux:

that grief contains all the things.

Amanda Lux:

Like there was anger, there was frustration, there was

Amanda Lux:

helplessness, there was disgust.

Amanda Lux:

You know, there were all these other emotions that, that were

Amanda Lux:

really part of that grief soup.

Amanda Lux:

, it was super bitter, you know, , it did not taste good at all, and I

Amanda Lux:

didn't wanna eat it or chew it up, you know, I didn't want to digest that.

Amanda Lux:

It was just like, blah.

Amanda Lux:

It's something that I personally, in my experience, of acute

Amanda Lux:

breathing, wanted to get it out.

Amanda Lux:

And so finding ways to get it out with, you know, sound or movement,

Amanda Lux:

you know, running has been helpful.

Amanda Lux:

I've had.

Amanda Lux:

Runs where I'm crying and yelling while I'm running and that's

Kelly Watkins:

really great , that that would be good.

Amanda Lux:

I run to move energy.

Amanda Lux:

I paint, I create to move energy, but, and to like to be in the experience for sure.

Amanda Lux:

Painting is really helpful for that.

Amanda Lux:

It helps me to like to really view it from different angles, take a good deep

Amanda Lux:

look at things and then I see things that I didn't see before and maybe.

Amanda Lux:

The value in that for me personally, is that I can honor it as a whole picture.

Amanda Lux:

It gives me a chance to step back and see it in a new light, and then I can really

Amanda Lux:

appreciate that there's even beauty there.

Amanda Lux:

You know that the bliss is in the grief, and at some point, if you

Amanda Lux:

go through it deeply enough, there is this lovely, blissful place on

Amanda Lux:

the other side, this sort of soft,

Kelly Watkins:

floaty feeling.

Kelly Watkins:

Well, our teacher says, hang out in the fire long enough and you'll slip on into

Kelly Watkins:

the softest water you've never seen.

Kelly Watkins:

Mm-hmm.

Kelly Watkins:

, it's our, our natural desire to just step out of the discomfort.

Kelly Watkins:

And I, I don't mean like stay in it and celebrate it and, and belong to it like

Kelly Watkins:

you're in a, a club, cuz I do that too.

Kelly Watkins:

I definitely sign up for grief and I believe what that is.

Kelly Watkins:

A storage container of things that you didn't quite know how to process through

Kelly Watkins:

for your life, and so now maybe they need a little extra attention or you know,

Kelly Watkins:

you're still learning this part that you weren't listening to for a few decades.

Kelly Watkins:

The word that I think about it is wholeness.

Kelly Watkins:

, I feel like intimacy with yourself has to involve catastrophic grief, you

Kelly Watkins:

know, that knock you to your knees.

Kelly Watkins:

I can't catch my breath.

Kelly Watkins:

Grief, and that you find pieces of yourself and definitely some

Kelly Watkins:

compassion that is inaccessible.

Kelly Watkins:

Otherwise, if you don't fall down and grind your face into the asphalt

Amanda Lux:

a little, I definitely feel you there about the whole.

Amanda Lux:

The whole in that there is something about going into the center of a thing

Amanda Lux:

and eventually it's all the things

Kelly Watkins:

are there, turns it on.

Kelly Watkins:

The large, you know, the huge reverberated level, that's

Kelly Watkins:

what an enlightened person is.

Kelly Watkins:

Somebody that just sits in the drop of the thing.

Kelly Watkins:

He goes, yeah.

Kelly Watkins:

Mm-hmm.

Kelly Watkins:

. It's revolting and gorgeous and disgusting and disturbing and.

Kelly Watkins:

So I think what I'm saying is that it's a, it's an intimate walk that you sign up

Kelly Watkins:

for and you definitely want to take it.

Kelly Watkins:

And what you'll find is something that we don't even have language for and

Kelly Watkins:

it's fullness, if I could say that.

Kelly Watkins:

It's like tiny little molecules and little tiny threads of all the parts of yourself

Kelly Watkins:

you didn't even know you were missing.

Kelly Watkins:

And then you get to just sit there and hold that and know that you're safe.

Amanda Lux:

I love the wailing tub and I love just so many things that

Amanda Lux:

you shared about just being with yourself and that it's that it is a

Amanda Lux:

unique experience to everyone and that we get to just learn it on our own.

Amanda Lux:

Really, nobody can tell us how to do it.

Amanda Lux:

There are no maps for how to grieve.

Amanda Lux:

That we have to figure that out on our own.

Amanda Lux:

And yet there are, you know, some tools.

Amanda Lux:

I think in polarity the, probably the biggest tool I could think of is how to

Amanda Lux:

be in neutrality, how to come to all of our experiences from a place of curiosity.

Amanda Lux:

An openness and not needing to change it and having an, an ability to just

Amanda Lux:

allow things to be what they are.

Amanda Lux:

And that leads me to a place of trust of really deeply trusting that we do

Amanda Lux:

have this innate intelligence that is, is organized in a way beyond

Amanda Lux:

our knowing and that our experience and everything that we go through.

Amanda Lux:

Has some organizational factors to it as well, and I like to think from

Amanda Lux:

that place and polarity, when I come to my clients with that consciousness

Amanda Lux:

or come to my own suffering with that consciousness, I feel better.

Amanda Lux:

It's like there's this relief, this sense of, well, I know that there's something

Amanda Lux:

right about this, even if I don't know what that is and I know that I have what

Amanda Lux:

I need, even if I don't know what that is.

Amanda Lux:

In the moment, and I know that I'm here to meet this, that

Amanda Lux:

this is part of my journey.

Amanda Lux:

I'm meant to do this and that it's growing me in the direction

Amanda Lux:

that I need to be growing, even if it looks completely wrong.

Amanda Lux:

I know that through the perspective of polarity and that philosophy,

Amanda Lux:

that it's always right on some level.

Amanda Lux:

It can't be wrong if you're having the experience.

Amanda Lux:

It's the experience you're supposed to be having and to just come at it with

Amanda Lux:

that total neutrality of this is the experience I'm having, and to be in it

Amanda Lux:

and be with it, so totally and completely.

Amanda Lux:

It can't help but open up.

Amanda Lux:

That was

Kelly Watkins:

astonishingly gorgeous.

Kelly Watkins:

I like everything that you just said, and it's.

Kelly Watkins:

Exactly right.

Kelly Watkins:

That's exactly how it is for me and in our polarity world.

Kelly Watkins:

It's funny, you, you just made me realize a, a new way that I've

Kelly Watkins:

been in accessing neutrality.

Kelly Watkins:

You know how it is in our work, sometimes we, it's not so easy to be neutral,

Kelly Watkins:

especially around a subject or something, or a person that we care deeply about.

Kelly Watkins:

So.

Kelly Watkins:

, if I can just throw this out there since you've brought it up.

Kelly Watkins:

This is another thing that I used to do with my clients when they were,

Kelly Watkins:

um, in their stages of pain or in their stages of losing some function

Kelly Watkins:

in their bodies or physicality.

Kelly Watkins:

And it's funny how much it fits our work now, and it's actually how I do fulcrums

Kelly Watkins:

on when I'm about to begin a session.

Kelly Watkins:

I do this thing now.

Kelly Watkins:

It's almost like the 3D posters that we used to have where you stare off.

Kelly Watkins:

But I will name all the things I see, I'll say computer screen, the curtains,

Kelly Watkins:

the blind, this furniture that notebook, and I'm absorbing every single thing

Kelly Watkins:

that I see in it's full capacity.

Kelly Watkins:

And that tree that's six miles away in the moon and the thing, and that

Kelly Watkins:

bird that just flew by, and I'll just hold that pattern of the everything.

Kelly Watkins:

Everything Bagel , and I'll just hold that for literally 30 seconds

Kelly Watkins:

and it's almost like a vector.

Kelly Watkins:

And then I'm in my neutrality.

Kelly Watkins:

I'm like in the driver's seat of everything's okay.

Kelly Watkins:

It's all existing all at once.

Kelly Watkins:

It's all perfect.

Kelly Watkins:

Everything's right here, right now.

Kelly Watkins:

And I don't know, it's a funny little thing.

Kelly Watkins:

It just opens up a new room in my experie.

Amanda Lux:

So it sounds to me like you're describing a way of attuning

Amanda Lux:

to yourself that rather than attuning to having an earth or some idea of,

Amanda Lux:

you know, your spirit in the center of your body or some breath or something

Amanda Lux:

else that we might use, right.

Amanda Lux:

Or go to, you're attuning.

Amanda Lux:

Your energy and yourself to the present moment and to everything that's in the

Amanda Lux:

field that's vis visible to you, and there's something that just like puts

Amanda Lux:

you into the place of where you are.

Kelly Watkins:

Yeah, I, I mean, it's funny cuz when I used to teach clients

Kelly Watkins:

that are in the hospice world, I would probably be in bed with them,

Kelly Watkins:

which is really against the rules.

Kelly Watkins:

But that's probably where I would start, is being next to somebody to see what

Kelly Watkins:

the perspective is that they're having.

Kelly Watkins:

You could also do a chair.

Kelly Watkins:

You could just be there with yourself.

Kelly Watkins:

And just, uh, begin naming things.

Kelly Watkins:

And with the intention.

Kelly Watkins:

I would say before you start with the intention that you're going to try to

Kelly Watkins:

enter in the room of Everythingness and see what that feels like.

Kelly Watkins:

You're not trying to find anything.

Kelly Watkins:

Just see if you can access that cellular memory in your

Kelly Watkins:

body of being completely okay.

Kelly Watkins:

For just one.

Kelly Watkins:

Just for a.

Kelly Watkins:

with everything that you're aware of in your field.

Kelly Watkins:

And lord knows there's a million things we aren't aware of in our field.

Kelly Watkins:

But just, I'll start just naming things from the perspective that

Kelly Watkins:

this person is here with, with me.

Kelly Watkins:

And then males start saying, I hear a car, I feel the wound.

Kelly Watkins:

Um, my stomach hurt.

Kelly Watkins:

, I see that they're, you know, and just calling everything out that you could

Kelly Watkins:

possibly see in your visual field.

Kelly Watkins:

And adding to it.

Kelly Watkins:

And adding to it.

Kelly Watkins:

And adding to it until you think you've got it all.

Kelly Watkins:

And it's almost like a crass eye feeling.

Kelly Watkins:

Maybe like maybe you're just staring with everything coming in in symphony.

Kelly Watkins:

Mm-hmm.

Kelly Watkins:

that I think everybody's experienced that staring away feeling or staring

Kelly Watkins:

out into space thing where you can't wake up, you can't get out, it's.

Kelly Watkins:

, it's that that you're trying to capture, but you're inducing it and maybe you could

Kelly Watkins:

say you're inducing your own still point.

Kelly Watkins:

That's beautiful.

Kelly Watkins:

It feels to me like an etheric tool.

Kelly Watkins:

It feels like when you are trying to accept that all things can

Kelly Watkins:

exist and all are existing with or without your permission, and that

Kelly Watkins:

you have a place that's perfect and that there is a sequencing that you

Kelly Watkins:

aren't aware of, and that there.

Kelly Watkins:

Motion and movement and intelligence, like you said, working on your behalf.

Kelly Watkins:

So all that you're doing right now is to try to find the

Kelly Watkins:

muscle to get in that place.

Kelly Watkins:

I think people that are deep meditators have, um, you know, really easy tricks

Kelly Watkins:

of getting themselves into that place.

Kelly Watkins:

And maybe it is the same place for me.

Kelly Watkins:

I'm probably thinking of something a little more.

Kelly Watkins:

conscious maybe, or like workable.

Kelly Watkins:

From my perspective, it helps with accepting life.

Kelly Watkins:

Hmm

Amanda Lux:

hmm.

Amanda Lux:

Yeah.

Amanda Lux:

So whenever we're in a place, if we have something going on that is

Amanda Lux:

worthy of grieving or if we have ever experienced something that is.

Amanda Lux:

Throwing us off our game a little bit, right?

Amanda Lux:

And we're needing to find a way through the experience that we're

Amanda Lux:

having emotionally, physically, mentally, whatever it might be.

Amanda Lux:

Then one way is through this etheric tool that you're describing, one way

Amanda Lux:

to ground or center or find acceptance.

Amanda Lux:

Is to just start to name the things in your, that are in your visual

Amanda Lux:

field and to become aware of all the sensations and all of the things.

Amanda Lux:

It's a way of becoming fully present and that through that presence we

Amanda Lux:

come to a natural state of sort of more acceptance or neutrality.

Amanda Lux:

Right.

Amanda Lux:

And neutrality.

Amanda Lux:

And neutrality is just, It's the absence of a charge, right?

Amanda Lux:

We feel charged in a negative way, or we can feel charged in a positive way too.

Amanda Lux:

But neutrality is that that experience of not being charged about anything, of being

Amanda Lux:

in totally present with and in acceptance of an observation of what is right.

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Beautiful.

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and that's a good place to be, especially in terms of, you know,

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when we're, when we have something really big going on or when we are wanting to

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honor grief in ourselves or with another, for another, then it can be helpful

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to tune into that as a tool, right?

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That way of how do we find acceptance in all things.

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and it starts with the the here and the now and the basic, what's

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in front of you, what's really happening, just what is this?

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And like we were saying earlier, of course, if you can get really,

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really, truly, deeply present with just what is everything, is there

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? Kelly Watkins: Right?

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Yeah, and I mean, grief aside, we could call everything that exists

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on a Tuesday grief right now.

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The world is full of reasons for grief of course, but we

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becoming neurologically resilient.

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Sounds so delicious.

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And I think that's what any of these things with our polarity worlds will

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definitely reveal is like, wow, you can become really strong in your.

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You can become really strong in the invisible ways that just

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make life feel supported and you didn't do an action to get it.

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You're just growing neurologically and nervous system.

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Yeah, and I think that that exercise that we just talked

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about, that to me is in that lane.

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It's in that vicinity of I'm just becoming strengthened with my invisible mesh.

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I don't even know what that means, but I'm becoming, my baseline

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is now 3.5 instead of minus two.

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Yes, yes.

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And I'm buoyant.

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And I'm bouncy, and I'm a little plump most days.

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And.

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can feel something all the way to its fullness and then I'd still let it roll.

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Well, yeah, and to me that's like, I'd rather have that than

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just about any super Tylenol.

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Hmm.

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To stay calm in a storm, genuinely like, wow, I really have those ingredients.

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It's not to say like you, it sucks to fold at the knees, and I do that too.

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I think it's all.

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\ related.

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Yeah, I love that.

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I really appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts and your wisdom

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and some of your experience and tools.

Kelly Watkins:

So thank you.

Kelly Watkins:

Thank you.

Amanda Lux:

Thank you so much for listening to this episode of a Lone

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Traveler's Guide to the Divine.

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If you found this episode to be helpful, inspiring, supportive at all, please share

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it with someone you think would appreciate it and consider leaving a review on Apple

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Podcasts or wherever you're listening, that it would just mean so much to me.

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If you would like to learn more about Kelly Watkins, you can

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check out my website, elevation hive.com/ Kelly Watkins.

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I have an entire page dedicated to her awesomeness and you can learn

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more about her mourning circles and getting private session work with her.

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I also have a link in the show notes to my book, which you

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can purchase on amazon.com and.

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, you can learn more about my upcoming classes in polarity therapy, energy

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Medicine, and Dreamwork that are all listed on my website@elevationhive.com.

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I appreciate your.

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And participation in listening, and it is such an honor to be

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in sacred community with you.

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About the Podcast

A Lone Traveler's Guide to the Divine
For explorers of DreamWork and Energy Medicine
Welcome dreamers, healers, empaths, seekers, and anyone interested in exploring what it means to be a soul on your journey, in these times.

This podcast is a place to come home to in the sanctuary of the great mystery, where the subtler things in life are seen and listened to, where healing is possible through the sharing of poetry, dreams, teachings, interviews and inspiration. This is a place to feel held in sacred community.

Because it can be lonely AF traversing the multiverse, evolving, awakening, harnessing the potency of our dreams, exploring the tools and techniques of energy medicine.

And it takes tremendous courage to tune-in stead of tune-out, to be a light bearer who faces the shadow through conscious exploration, daring to activate our highest potential.

But it is the kind of work that is worth doing. And it is so much more fun, interesting, profound and entertaining when we do it together!

Hosted by Amanda Lux; artist, mother, author, registered polarity educator and founder of the Elevation Hive School and Community for Energy Medicine and DreamWork.

Tune in every new and full moon for meditations, energy balancing and embodiment practices based in Polarity Therapy, dream sharing and fascinating conversations about what it means to live awake in this dream called life.

Free courses and community are waiting for you at ElevationHive.com
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Amanda Lux

I am an artist, author, mother, educator and creator of the Elevation Hive School of Energy Medicine and DreamWork. My greatest desire is to be in conscious community with like-minded individuals who are dedicated to personal growth and evolving themselves in service of the collective.

I also love quality coffee, Ashtanga yoga, traveling the cosmos and introverting with my small but mighty dog, Miss Riley Rose.

If you enjoy this podcast you should head over to elevationhive.com and check out our private community membership where we have a dream sharing forum and free classes galore. I read and personally respond to every dream shared because, well, that's probably my biggest passion!